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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Medford in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9109S, -97.6797WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100032nw. Id of event: us100032nw. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:06:37 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/15 / 2015-08-16 11:06:37 / August 16, 2015 @ 11:06 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.98 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.98 km, -97.6797° West, 36.9109° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mulvane, Winfield, Enid. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6797° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9109° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNE of Medford, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-16 11:06:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-16 11:20:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100032nw Id of event.
Event Code 100032nw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032nw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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